WEBVTT Kind: captions; Language: en 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:15.001 Henry here got on the train with $200. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:20.000 He couldn't see any arm and a friendly game of cards. 00:00:20.001 --> 00:00:22.000 What if the other men were strangers? 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:25.000 And take Joe Collins. 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:27.001 He's got a nice wife at home. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:32.001 But he met this girl at the bar and she looked after the first couple of drinks. 00:00:58.001 --> 00:01:01.000 There's a good old-fashioned word for people less. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:03.001 We call them suckers. 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:05.001 And there are other people. 00:01:06.001 --> 00:01:10.000 People who stay up nights figuring out how to take away what they've got. 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:17.001 There are all kinds of games Mike here, for instance. 00:01:18.001 --> 00:01:19.001 He's got everything in me. 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:20.000 He's young. 00:01:20.001 --> 00:01:21.000 He's healthy. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:22.000 Got a job. 00:01:23.001 --> 00:01:25.000 And he's got a cunty of food. 00:01:25.001 --> 00:01:28.001 Big factories to make things a man can use. 00:01:29.001 --> 00:01:31.001 Big cities to do the business of a big company. 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:32.001 And people. 00:01:33.001 --> 00:01:34.000 Lots of people. 00:01:34.001 --> 00:01:37.001 Enough to work the farm and build the factories. 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:40.000 Dig the mines. 00:01:41.001 --> 00:01:43.000 Run the business. 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:44.001 All kinds of people. 00:01:44.001 --> 00:01:48.000 People from different countries with different religions. 00:01:48.001 --> 00:01:49.001 Different colored skins. 00:01:51.001 --> 00:01:52.000 Free people. 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.000 They can live together and work together and build America 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.000 together because they're free. 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:01.000 Free to vote. 00:02:01.001 --> 00:02:02.001 To say what they please. 00:02:03.001 --> 00:02:04.001 Go to their own churches. 00:02:07.001 --> 00:02:09.001 To pick their own jobs. 00:02:12.001 --> 00:02:15.001 You know, Mike's got something, all right? 00:02:16.001 --> 00:02:17.001 He's got America. 00:02:21.001 --> 00:02:26.000 But there are guys who stay up nights figuring out how to 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:27.001 take that away from him. 00:02:27.001 --> 00:02:29.001 I happen to know the facts. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.000 Now friends, I'm just an average American. 00:02:33.001 --> 00:02:34.001 But I'm an American American. 00:02:35.001 --> 00:02:38.001 And some of the things I see in this country of ours make my blood boil. 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:41.001 I see people with foreign act of money. 00:02:42.001 --> 00:02:45.001 I see Negroes holding jobs that belong to me and you. 00:02:46.001 --> 00:02:47.001 I see people with foreign act of money. 00:02:47.001 --> 00:02:49.001 I ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:51.001 what's going to become of us real Americans? 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:57.001 I've heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America. 00:02:58.001 --> 00:03:00.000 It's what the Saint's in all his talking about. 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:03.000 What are we real Americans going to do about it? 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.000 You'll find it right here in this little pamphlet. 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:08.001 The truth about Negroes and foreigners. 00:03:09.001 --> 00:03:11.000 The truth about the Catholic Church. 00:03:11.001 --> 00:03:13.000 Do you believe in this kind of talk? 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:16.000 I don't know. It makes pretty good sense to me. 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:20.001 And I tell you friends, we'll never be able to call this country our own. 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:22.001 Until it's a country without. 00:03:24.001 --> 00:03:25.001 Without what? 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:27.000 Yeah, without what? 00:03:27.001 --> 00:03:29.000 Without Negroes. 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:30.001 Without alien foreigners. 00:03:31.001 --> 00:03:32.000 Without Catholics. 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:34.000 Without Freemasons. 00:03:35.001 --> 00:03:36.000 You know they say... 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.000 What's wrong with the Masons? I'm a Mason. 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:41.001 Hey, that fella's talking about me. 00:03:42.001 --> 00:03:44.000 And that makes a difference, doesn't it? 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:46.000 These are your enemies. 00:03:47.001 --> 00:03:49.001 These are the people who are trying to take over our country. 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.001 Now you know them. You know what they stand for. 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.000 And it's up to you and me to fight them. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:58.001 Fight them and destroy them before they destroy us. 00:03:59.001 --> 00:04:00.000 Thank you. 00:04:02.001 --> 00:04:08.001 Before he said Masons, you were ready to agree with him. 00:04:09.001 --> 00:04:12.000 Well, yes, but he was talking about... 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:13.001 What about those other people? 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:17.000 But in this country, we have no other people. 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:19.000 We are American peoples. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.001 What about you? You aren't American, right? 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.000 I was born in Hungary, but now I am an American citizen. 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:29.000 And I have seen what this kind of talk can do. 00:04:29.001 --> 00:04:30.001 I saw it in Berlin. 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:31.001 What were you doing there? 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:33.001 I was a professor at the university. 00:04:34.001 --> 00:04:36.001 I heard the same words we have heard today. 00:04:37.001 --> 00:04:39.000 But I was a fool then. 00:04:39.001 --> 00:04:42.000 I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics. 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.000 But unfortunately, it was not so. 00:04:46.001 --> 00:04:50.001 You see, they knew that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country. 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.001 So they split Germany into small groups. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.000 They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation. 00:04:58.001 --> 00:05:00.000 Of course, that was not easy to do. 00:05:00.001 --> 00:05:02.000 They had to work hard to do it. 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:07.001 You see, we human beings are not born with prejudices. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.000 Always they are made for us, made by someone who wants something. 00:05:12.001 --> 00:05:14.001 Remember that when you hear this kind of talk. 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:19.000 Somebody is going to get something out of it, and it isn't going to be you. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.000 This is not classroom theory. 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:25.001 I saw it happen. 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.001 I saw it first in Berlin in 1932. 00:05:31.001 --> 00:05:34.000 Five young men that I knew were standing in the crowd 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:35.001 listening to the Nazi speaker. 00:05:36.001 --> 00:05:38.000 Eric was a Catholic. 00:05:40.001 --> 00:05:42.001 Anton, a student of mine, was a Jew. 00:05:43.001 --> 00:05:45.001 Heinrich owned a small hardware store. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:48.001 Karl was a farmer. 00:05:49.001 --> 00:05:52.000 And Hans was an unemployed metal worker. 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:57.001 To our poor Aryan Germans, I say it is time you inherited the nation 00:05:57.001 --> 00:05:59.001 which rightfully belongs to you. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.001 To you alone belongs the glorious destiny of the greater Germany. 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:08.000 The Nazi party will provide land for the farmer, work for the worker, 00:06:08.001 --> 00:06:10.001 and profits for the small businessmen. 00:06:11.001 --> 00:06:13.001 Who is getting these things now? 00:06:14.001 --> 00:06:15.001 The Jew. 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:19.001 The Jew who has stolen our nation and our birthright. 00:06:20.001 --> 00:06:23.000 Who makes all the money and takes all our jobs? 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:29.001 The Jew! He must be shunned! He must be ostracized! He must be eliminated! 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:32.000 And the Catholics. 00:06:33.001 --> 00:06:36.001 We don't want our great nation run by a foreign church. 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:40.000 We Germans will know what to do with these people when the time comes. 00:06:40.001 --> 00:06:42.001 They and their faith must be destroyed! 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:45.000 Then there are the Freemasons. 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.001 In Germany, we have no place for secret societies. 00:06:49.001 --> 00:06:53.000 There will be only one society, and that is a Nazi party. 00:06:53.001 --> 00:06:57.000 There will be no secrecy about that in the new greater Germany. 00:06:57.001 --> 00:07:03.000 One by one he attacked each minority and he split them off one from the other. 00:07:03.001 --> 00:07:06.001 These men were all fellow Germans when they came here today. 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:09.000 Now they were splitting two rival groups. 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.000 Suspicious of each other, hating each other. 00:07:13.001 --> 00:07:15.001 They were being swindled, all of them. 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.000 But the man who was really being fooled was Hans. 00:07:21.001 --> 00:07:24.001 He was pure German according to Nazi standards. 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:29.001 To him they promised everything, and he fell for it. 00:07:31.001 --> 00:07:33.001 That's how Hans became a superman. 00:07:34.001 --> 00:07:37.000 They gave him a uniform and they pumped up his ego. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.000 He wasn't just a little fellow out of work anymore. 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.000 He was a member of the master race. 00:07:44.001 --> 00:07:49.000 Hans and thousands of others like him, all playing a soccer game. 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:54.001 They gambled with other people's liberty, and of course they lost their own. 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:56.000 A nation of suckers. 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:58.001 Hitler needed these people. 00:07:59.001 --> 00:08:01.000 There was lots of work to be done. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:06.001 There were trade unions to be smashed, because unions were organized 00:08:06.001 --> 00:08:08.001 and might offer resistance. 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:11.000 There were many political parties in Germany. 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:13.001 These the Nazis destroyed. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:18.000 They were determined to smash every organization where people might 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:19.001 bend together and resist them. 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.000 There were Jews to be beaten and killed. 00:08:23.001 --> 00:08:26.000 The Jews were not powerful, but they were a convenient 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.000 excuse for all the nation's ills. 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:32.001 And besides, a Nazi party member could not take over this man's store. 00:08:34.001 --> 00:08:39.000 Hundreds of Catholics were put in jail, because the Catholic Church had strength 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.001 and could resist the Nazi drive of power. 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:48.000 They had split the nation into a hundred pieces, and then one by one 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.000 they had destroyed the pieces. 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:54.001 Over these broken pieces the Nazis rode into power. 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.000 One party, one nation, one religion. 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:04.000 These men had won their struggle for power. 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.000 They now ruled all of Germany. 00:09:07.001 --> 00:09:10.000 But still they had trouble with their oldest and 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.000 most persistent enemy, the truth. 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:18.001 They found that truth does not die easily, and so they decided to abolish truth. 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:24.000 One great source of truth is literature, so they burned books. 00:09:24.001 --> 00:09:25.001 Twenty million of them. 00:09:26.001 --> 00:09:30.000 Many great men in Germany who were spokesmen for truth were jailed 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:31.001 or driven from their country. 00:09:32.001 --> 00:09:34.000 Teachers, writers, scientists. 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:36.001 Education was discouraged. 00:09:37.001 --> 00:09:41.001 In five years, college attendance dropped 53 percent. 00:09:43.001 --> 00:09:46.000 It was forbidden to listen to a British radio program 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:48.001 or read an American newspaper. 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:54.000 In Nazi Germany you had to get your information from Dr. Goebbels. 00:09:54.001 --> 00:09:56.000 He knew what was best for you. 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:00.000 The church was one force in Germany still strong enough 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.001 to proclaim the truth in public. 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:08.000 This Catholic priest was arrested the following day on charges of immorality. 00:10:09.001 --> 00:10:13.000 The Protestant church also continued to try and fight for truth. 00:10:13.001 --> 00:10:16.000 The Nazis put this man in a concentration camp. 00:10:17.001 --> 00:10:21.000 There were others who spoke for truth, and I am proud to say that 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.000 educators were among them. 00:10:23.001 --> 00:10:26.001 And what, may I ask, is an area? 00:10:27.001 --> 00:10:29.000 I don't know my son. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:36.000 But let us see what our present so-called authorities have to say about it. 00:10:36.001 --> 00:10:38.001 They say he is tall, 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:45.001 slender, 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:53.001 blue-eyed, 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.000 and blonde. 00:10:59.001 --> 00:11:06.000 There is no area in race, and more important, there 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:08.000 is no master race. 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:15.000 There are people who may find these ideas convenient, but science 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:17.000 cannot support them. 00:11:17.001 --> 00:11:24.000 There is no scientific proof that there is any correlation between a man's 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.001 racial characteristics and his native ability, or character. 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:35.001 In all racial groups, he finds the same range of potentialities. 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:43.000 We find idiots, and geniuses, we find criminals, and philanthropists. 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:51.000 We must judge each man as an individual, and not by the color 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:55.001 of his skin, or his eyes, or by the length of his nose. 00:12:03.001 --> 00:12:08.001 [...] important thing is to remember 00:12:08.001 --> 00:12:13.000 that there is no master race. 00:12:13.001 --> 00:12:15.001 That is a scientific truth. 00:12:16.001 --> 00:12:20.000 Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. 00:12:27.001 --> 00:12:32.000 And so for all practical purposes, truth had been abolished in Germany. 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:38.000 A lot of my German friends wondered what had hit them, how did it 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:40.000 happen, where did it start? 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:45.001 It started right here, and this was where it could have been stopped. 00:12:46.001 --> 00:12:51.000 If those people had stood together, if they had protected each other, they 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:52.001 could have resisted the Nazi threat. 00:12:53.001 --> 00:12:57.000 Together they would have been strong, but once they allowed themselves to be 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.000 split apart, they were helpless. 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:04.000 When that first minority lost out, everybody lost out. 00:13:04.001 --> 00:13:07.000 They made the mistake of gambling with other people's freedom. 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:10.000 Now let's see how those bets paid off. 00:13:11.001 --> 00:13:14.000 Karl the farmer was gambling on a better life for himself. 00:13:15.001 --> 00:13:18.001 What he got was extra hours of backbreaking work, 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:21.000 as much as a hundred hour a week. 00:13:21.001 --> 00:13:25.000 He was forced to stay on his land and produce what he was told to produce. 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.001 Because now Hitler was preparing for war. 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:33.000 For Heinrich, who owned the hardware store, the bet didn't pay off either. 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:38.000 One hundred and four thousand small businesses were closed in two years. 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.001 And for Hans, conditions hadn't improved any. 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:47.000 He had a job now, in the munitions factory, but he 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:48.001 worked long hours for little pay. 00:13:50.001 --> 00:13:56.001 The working conditions grew increasingly bad, and even though he didn't like the 00:13:56.001 --> 00:13:58.001 job, he wasn't permitted to leave it. 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:03.000 And when Hitler decided the time was right, Germany went to war. 00:14:03.001 --> 00:14:09.000 Not by declaring war, but by a carefully prepared sneak attack. 00:14:10.001 --> 00:14:14.000 Once again Hitler needed Hans to do his dirty work. 00:14:15.001 --> 00:14:21.000 Hans was an expert at brutality this time, and Hitler had decided to use Hans and 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.000 his brutality against other people. 00:14:23.001 --> 00:14:26.000 The Czechs, the Poles, the French, the Russians. 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:33.000 But in the crucial test of war, Hitler's race theories didn't pay off. 00:14:33.001 --> 00:14:38.001 His pure-blooded supermen were defeated by the Mongol armies he despised. 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:42.001 By the British of El Alamein. 00:14:50.001 --> 00:14:53.000 By the Russians at Stalingrad. 00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:03.000 Then on D-Day by American soldiers of every color and religion, who 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:08.000 smashed across the Normandy beaches and drove on through to the heart of Germany. 00:15:08.001 --> 00:15:12.001 For the misguided Germans who had swallowed the Nazis, and the [...] the Nazi 00:15:12.001 --> 00:15:15.001 debate, the Nazi game did not pay off. 00:15:16.001 --> 00:15:20.000 The continent of Europe was strewn with millions of German bodies, 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:22.001 pure Aryan bodies. 00:15:24.001 --> 00:15:27.001 Karl the farmer was left in the snow outside of Moscow. 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:31.000 Heinrich stayed in Italy at Salerno. 00:15:32.001 --> 00:15:38.000 And Hans, who was going to rule the world, got only a little patch of Normandy 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.000 that he could call his own. 00:15:42.001 --> 00:15:44.001 We must never let that happen to us or to our country. 00:15:45.001 --> 00:15:49.001 We must never let ourselves be divided by race or color or religion, because in 00:15:49.001 --> 00:15:51.001 this country we all belong to minority groups. 00:15:52.001 --> 00:15:55.000 I was born in Hungary, you are a Mason. 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:58.001 These are minorities, and then you belong to other minority groups too. 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:02.000 You are a farmer, you have blue eyes, you go to the Methodist Church. 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:06.001 Your right to belong to these minorities is a precious thing. 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.001 You have a right to be what you are and say what you think, because here we have 00:16:11.001 --> 00:16:13.001 personal freedom, we have liberty. 00:16:14.001 --> 00:16:16.000 And these are not just fancy words. 00:16:16.001 --> 00:16:19.000 This is a practical and priceless way of living. 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:21.000 But we must work at it. 00:16:21.001 --> 00:16:24.001 We must guard everyone's liberty, or we can lose our own. 00:16:25.001 --> 00:16:30.000 If we allow any minority to lose its freedom by persecution or by prejudice, 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:32.001 we are threatening our own freedom. 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:35.001 And this is not simply an idea. 00:16:36.001 --> 00:16:38.001 This is good, hard common sense. 00:16:39.001 --> 00:16:44.000 You see, here in America is not a question whether we tolerate minorities. 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:46.001 America is minorities. 00:16:47.001 --> 00:16:49.001 And that means you and me. 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:57.001 So let's not be suckers. 00:16:58.001 --> 00:17:02.001 We must not allow the freedom or dignity of any men to be threatened by 00:17:02.001 --> 00:17:04.000 any act or word. 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:07.001 Let's be selfish about it. 00:17:08.001 --> 00:17:11.000 Let's forget about we and they. 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:13.001 Let's think about us.